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Date: February 25, 2025 at 04:48:12
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: The West’s Ethnic Cleansing under Humanitarian Pretexts |
URL: https://www.juancole.com/2025/02/cleansing-humanitarian-pretexts.html |
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The West’s Ethnic Cleansing under Humanitarian Pretexts
RAMONA WADI
02/24/2025
by Ramona Wadi
( Middle East Monitor ) – Emboldened by the US and the international
community’s acceptance of its genocide, Israel is not taking long to emerge
from the shadows of its own rhetoric. After US President Donald Trump said
that there is no right of return for Palestinians under the proposed take-over of
Gaza for real estate development, Likud Communications Minister Shlomo
Karhi has called for the forced transfer of Palestinians from Gaza.
On Monday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated he would seek a
vote over implementing Trump’s plan, warning that if Hamas failed to return the
remaining captives, Israel would “open the gates of hell” and “immediately
begin the migration of Gaza’s residents to other countries.” For Israel, genocide
isn’t hell enough.
What Israeli ministers are saying is that since colonialism is above international
law, Israel can impose its war crimes on the Palestinian people and strike at the
sovereignty of other countries. As it has for decades, it must be added.
“Humanitarianism,” Digital, Midjourney / Clip2Comic, 2025
Since prior to the establishment of Israel, the Zionist movement has not ceased
grappling with the fact that the indigenous population is a reality and the barren
land is a myth. In 1938, David Ben Gurion stated that he supported the forced
transfer of Palestinians and saw “nothing immoral” in it. The Nakba was one
example of forced transfer within the context of widespread massacres,
terrorism and destruction. Israel’s genocide in Gaza is another example of
forced transfer. What Israel and the US are now aiming at is the forced
expulsion from Gaza in a bid to make the land void of Palestinians. But with
each effort, Israel is also asserting and reinforcing the Palestinian presence in
Palestine. There is no way of avoiding the fact that Israel is built on forced
displacement, and on the international community’s acceptance of it.
However, the visibility that comes with attempts to annihilate the Palestinian
population also makes the colonised vulnerable. The open calls for forced
transfer are not being called out as incitement to war crimes because the
international community prefers to deal with the humanitarian issue of
refugees. And when speaking of refugees without context, or within a diluted
context, war crimes are dismissed in diplomacy. The forcibly displaced become
a mere mass of humans lacking basic needs, but what they have truly lacked
for decades is the right to their own land.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza reinforces the disseminated concept of a refugee as
helpless and dependent. But forced dependence does not indicate
helplessness. On the contrary, it exposes what the international community has
forced on Palestinians, in order to protect Israel’s colonial presence and
establishment. Forced dependence, like forced expulsion, forces us to look at
the perpetrators – Israel, the US and the international community – and their
actions.
The international community spent decades preparing for a moment when
forced displacement can be euphemised through real estate prime property
investment. And while most Western leaders would like to be seen once again
as presenting alternatives to Trump by rejecting forced displacement, which
Western leader will truly take a stance against foreign investment and for
legitimate anti-colonial resistance? Refugees, after all, bolster the humanitarian
paradigm.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily
reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor or Informed Comment.
Via Middle East Monitor
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work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Date: February 25, 2025 at 15:44:26
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The West’s Ethnic Cleansing under Humanitarian Pretexts |
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Kinda makes the Biden days look pretty good, eh? At least back then
there was hope.. a chance something could be done.. now it’s just a shit
show.. totalitarian regimes popping up everywhere.. and our very own
king the fairest of them all.
All that’s left is for us to die. That’s the point right? Get rid of the
Palestinians, the Ukrainians, women, the gays, the colored, the poor,
the elderly, back them into untenable situations and wait for them to die.
And hey, that’s only right, after all they’ve got god on their side. Well if
not god Putin and MBS who are just as good, if not better.
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Date: February 26, 2025 at 08:32:33
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The West’s Ethnic Cleansing under Humanitarian Pretexts |
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Yes.
Just re-read your post.
Yes.
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